Comments on: What to expect around here https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-expect-around-here David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5307 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:51:19 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5307 I will give geeklog a look, thanks.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5306 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:36:59 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5306 Much of Steve’s code only worked with a particular version of b2–I don’t remember all of the details. We’re looking at Geeklog. I hate the name, because “Geek” is derogatory, but it has tons of features and I’m satisfied that it’s been thoroughly field-tested. The most prominent site using it is Groklaw, a blog site tracking SCO Group’s legal escapades. It gets Slashdotted on a regular basis and handles the load admirably.

Geeklog can be set to require registration and has recent comments built in, as well as numerous other “Top 10s”. It doesn’t track score, but it does track and rank page reads, which is probably a better measure anyway. If lots of people read it, that’s a pretty good indication that it touched a nerve. There’s no way to know from that statistic if that was in a good or a bad sense, but personally, I don’t distinguish. Whether people read me because they like what I say or because they think I’m an idiot, it doesn’t matter much to me as long as they keep coming back. 🙂 And if you notice, Steve’s scoring ranks by votes, not the actual score. Tee hee hee.

That philosophy is probably adequate for a church site as well, since people who disagree with it may disagree for a variety of reasons, and those reasons will undoubtedly come out in the comments.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5305 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:14:12 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5305 What software are you looking at to force commenters to register. My church is wanting to setup a site with b2 or b2evo but we would want to make people register to post comments. We are also interested in Steve’s custom code for score, posts by commentary, and recent comments.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5304 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:59:37 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5304 The racial slur that showed up this morning just about did it for me. A certain impolite 12-letter word that questions one’s relationship with his mother would enrage me a lot less.

24.26.166.154 – – [10/Nov/2003:19:37:22 -0600] “GET /index.php?p=819&c=1 HTTP/1.1” 200 19682 “http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22microsoft+works%22+%22low+memory%22&btnG=Google+Search” “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7”
24.26.166.154 – – [10/Nov/2003:19:38:28 -0600] “POST /b2comments.post.php HTTP/1.1” 302 5 “https://dfarq.homeip.net/index.php?p=819&c=1” “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7”
24.26.166.154 – – [10/Nov/2003:19:41:24 -0600] “POST /b2comments.post.php HTTP/1.1” 302 5 “https://dfarq.homeip.net/index.php?p=819&c=1” “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7”

I think that’s plenty enough justification for forcing logins. Some flunky searches Google for Microsoft Works information, gets my post on refurbing a Pentium-200 (which doesn’t really have anything to do with Works), and posts two comments questioning my intelligence and sexual practices, brimming with profanity and racial slurs.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5303 Fri, 07 Nov 2003 05:14:01 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5303 been considering… a few whois’s, a few email collections, and replace the offending post with the appropriate email addresses so that they are harvested… Hmm…

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5300 Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:38:42 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5300 Dave,

No problem here if you want to require registered users to log in.

Hope you get better soon. My 7-yr old has been sick with a combination stomach bug and ear infection for over a week now, and is just starting to feel well again. The bugs going around this Fall seem alot tougher than years past…

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5299 Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:17:25 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5299 That spammer on post 821 seems to have just confessed that he loves the Backstreet Boys, and all of his Google-feeding links seem to have mysteriously disappeared. I just hate when that happens. (I’m never ever sarcastic. Not ever.)

As far as Movable Type, I’ve used it and actually set it up for someone else once, but I want something driven by SQL and PHP. Things like the top 10s you see on the sidebar aren’t possible in MT. My old Greymatter site was similar, and it just got to be too difficult to handle comments on posts that are more than a week old–which seems to be the majority of comments on my particular site.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5302 Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:04:11 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5302 MovableType has a plugin that helps combat spammers. I haven’t installed it yet – not hit enough to spur me into movement – but it definitely is annoying.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5301 Wed, 05 Nov 2003 05:46:30 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5301 Whoa… This one takes the cake for ludicrousness…

https://dfarq.homeip.net/index.php?p=821&c=1

I’m all for logging-in. 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-to-expect-around-here/#comment-5298 Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:18:04 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=49#comment-5298 Dave,
I wouldn’t mind being a registered user if it makes it easier on you.

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